Australian singles charts:
Brandy (You’re a Fine Girl) entered the Kent charts on 7 January 1972 and peaked at #10. The song was #70 on the Top 100 of 1972.
Album:
The song is on Looking Glass which entered the Kent album charts on 6 November 1972 and peaked at #56.
Songwriter:
Elliot Lurie
Producers:
Mike Gershman, Bob Liftin, Looking Glass
Record label of Australian release:
Epic
Wikipedia:
Brandy (You’re a Fine Girl) by the American band Looking Glass was written by lead guitarist and co-vocalist Elliot Lurie.
The lyrics tell of Brandy, a barmaid in a busy seaport harbor town which serves “a hundred ships a day.” Though lonely sailors flirt with her, she pines for one who has long since left her because he claimed his life, his love, and his lady, was “the sea.”
Following the song’s release in 1972, “Brandy” increased in popularity as a girl’s name in the United States.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandy_(You’re_a_Fine_Girl)
Lyrics:
There′s a port on a western bay
And it serves a hundred ships a day
Lonely sailors pass the time a way
And talk about their homes
Theres a girl in this harbor town
And she works laying whiskey down
They say Brandy fetch another round
She serves them whisky and wine
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